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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Celebrate Good Times, Come On! - 2/1

Each Saturday Ruth Ayres invites us to share and celebrate events from our week. Looking for small celebrations has certainly improved my outlook on my week. For that, I am certainly grateful to Ruth and to all of you who choose to celebrate with us.Wow, it is hard to believe that February is here! That itself is a celebration because we are one month closer to spring!Another week of starts and stops with snow/cold days, but still much to celebrate!One - Of course it is the week to celebrate books. I watched the ALA Youth Media Awards for the first time and it was so much fun sharing this experience with my "inaugural" Mock Newbery Club. We had been coming in on Monday mornings for books and breakfast and celebrated Monday by watching the awards together. I have learned many things about how to improve this for 2014. The best part - my kids from this year want to continue. I hope this is the start of something big!

My small but mighty Newbery Club members
eating scrambled eggs and sausage
while waiting for the awards.

Two - Here is a stack books I received from Scholastic this week. No need to say more!

Three - We started a persuasive unit this week and I love how it is flowing. I have included many new lessons to the unit which has added much conversation and collaboration. We start writing next week so hopefully I will have even more to celebrate!

13 comments:

Yay!! I love the pile of books from Scholastic. I received my own this week too. The two I read in your stack and LOVED are Hold Fast & Half a Chance!! I have all of the others in my TBR pile. Enjoy! Happy Reading!

Thank you for sharing your lovely classroom and reading life. The small but mighty group of readers, crock pots full of food, the stack of books (I have some of those books in my stack) and your collaborative writers. All great celebrations. Enjoy the weekend. Hope you get some reading in.

I think your small (but mighty) group will grow into something bigger. Kudos to the kids for being a part of this group. Lovely set of books to read, now all that's missing is the time. Can't wait to read how the persuasive unit goes.

I was telling one of our teachers about these Newberry book clubs that I had red about on your blog (and others as well). She was interested! I might just share your post with her! Happy reading to you and your students!

Your group looks about the same age as mine, Leigh Anne-it was a delight, wasn't it? And we're going to continue to meet and talk about books, looking for the next winner! Glad you had a nice week. Which one of your fabulous stack will be first! I see Jone has given her pick; mine is The Real Boy (I really love Anne Ursu). Have a great time watching "the" game!

Your week looks perfect...books and food, writing, and celebrating. As I've read about some of the "Mock Newbery" groups, it makes me think about starting one for next year. I'll have to pick your brain. Like Linda, I LOVED The Real Boy. It's on my Kindle and I need to get a hard copy for my students. Hold Fast and Tangle of Knots are also favorites. Doll Bones is waiting for me at the library. I'll be picking it up tomorrow. :) Have a great week!

Your book stack looks amazing and many of these are on my mustreadin2014 list! Your class looks delightful and the small but Mighty Newbery Club members look very keen bracing for the announcements! What fun! You may just find some new lessons for your persuasive writing unit in my new book - Nonfiction Writing Power! Have a wonderful week!

Doll Bones and The Real Boy were two I didn't get read for our Mock Newbery book club. I had a large group of students rooting for The Real Boy. Those two are still in my WTR (want to read) pile. I'm off to read some of the new picture book winners tonight!

I got a nice stack of free books from Scholastic too! Just finished "My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish" by Mo O'Hara that I got from them. Now on to "Three Tines Lucky" since all my kids are "fighting" for the book from the library!